Space Race

By Treasure Spoon

  • Yeager was the first astronaut to break a sound barrier

  • Albert is sent to space

  • Sputnik was launched

  • Laika Launched

  • Explorer 1 makes it into space

  • Nasa was founded

  • Able and Miss Baker survive their flight into space

  • Lunas 2 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon

  • Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel into space

  • Alan Shepard was the first American in space

  • Kennedy challenges America within a decade man on the moon

  • John Glenn is the first American in orbit

  • Mariner 4 became the first probe to take pictures of Mars

  • Alexey Leonov was the first astronaut to go on a ‘spacewalk’

  • Soviet probe Venera lands on Venus

  • accidental launch pad deaths of Grissom ,white and Chaffee

  • Apollo 8 orbits the moon

  • Neil A. and Buzz A. were the first astronauts to walk on the moon

  • first American spacecraft lands on the moon

  • Mariner 9 orbited mars

  • last 2 men walk in the moon

  • skylab space station launched

  • Apollo-Soyuz test project

  • Challenger was launched

  • Sally ride is first American woman in space

  • Challenger Exploded

  • Hubble Space telescope

  • mars lander launched

  • Columbia shuttle killed 7

  • Curiosity rover landed on Mars